Thanks to frequent film and boob tube location shoot , Angelenos can walk the streets of far - off cities without ever place foot on a plane .
As a house physician of downtown Los Angeles , I often turn the corner and abruptly discover myself transported to Manhattan . hack bearing the “ NYC TAXI ” logotype wait at the curb . actor in NYPD uniform huddle together around a craft services tent .
When I lived in Long Beach , my neighborhood regularly stood in Miami in shoot for Dexter and CSI : Miami . My every night jogging route go by a disturbing telephone number of ( phoney ) murder vista .
A absorbing clause by Artbound ’s Oliver Wangprofiles Greg Campeau , one of the eagle - eyed location scoutswho can see Miami in Long Beach , Phoenix in Santa Clarita , or “ Anywhere , USA , ” in South Pasadena on behalf of product companies . A cardinal requirement : to keep price down , the locations must lie withina thirty - mile zone(the origin of “ TMZ ” ) stipulated by studios ’ labour agreement :
There are place outside the TMZ that Campeau bid he could use more—”UC Irvine … it ’s a very neat campus”—but even inside the geographical zone , there ’s a noteworthy amount of visual variety . As Campeau points out , within the TMZ , “ share of downtown and some part of East L.A. can go for Philly , Pittsburgh , New York . You could play with Florida . Then you could also do Arizona , Phoenix , you experience , out in Santa Clarita . ”
That thirty - knot zona is centered on the crossroad of Beverly and La Cienega and includes a diverseness of landscape painting within Los Angeles , Orange , and Ventura counties , as seen in this mapfrom the California Film Commission :
An important question : how does all this masquerading affect Southern Californians ’ perception of their own region ? Wang does n’t address this directly , but he does suggest that Campeau ’s habit of sniffing out potential locating well attune him to the city :
“ People are always disturbed about getting from Point A to Point B , ” he contribute , and in the process , they often overlook the beauty of Los Angeles right under their noses , particularly in piazza where you might imagine there is none .
Perhaps we should all try suppose our urban center as somewhere else .
Top image : NYPD squad railroad car outside the LA Cafe on Spring Street in business district Los Angeles . Photo by Flickr usersavemejebus . Used under a Creative Commons permission .
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